Monthly Archives: July 2007

Shift Happens – Watch This Video

The second thought provoking animation of the week…
Watch it. It’s good.

Makes me realise that understanding and appreciating bits and bytes is really important. And maybe one day I’ll be able to apply it to something that makes a difference…
Designed by Xplane, whose work I’ve admired for years, for Shifthappens.
Via RandomCulture (which I always enjoy!)

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Aaaah Shoreditch

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Faris and Me on TV

Well not really TV, but it is sort of like TV on the Internet… This time I’ve actually managed to watch myself, so I’m making progress. I didn’t like it, but I did manage to stomach it.
It’s from the Ideas Forum thing that Faris and I spoke at earlier in the year, the guys at [...]

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Amazing Polish Movie Posters

I love so many of these Polish Film Posters. I just like the way they’ve focussed on totally different things from the Hollywood versions. And the best thing is most of them are for sale, and they ship most places. Woo Hoo!
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Star Wars

Blade Runner

And hundreds more. [...]

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Awesome Mechanics

If your favourite game as a kid was Mouse Trap, and you enjoyed the Honda Cog advert be prepared to waste 9.10 of your life smiling through this compilation of idents for Japanese TV show Pythagoraswitch.

via: BoingBoing

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Firefox eBay Edition

This could have been around for ages, but I just saw a banner for it today for the first time…
It’s basically a version of Firefox for people who do a lot of eBaying – it’s basically just a load of extensions for Firefox that have been pre-installed. But it is pretty nicely done. This I [...]

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The Mullet Strategy

Business up front.
Party out the back.
MySpace, Youtube, Wikipedia they’re all employing ‘The Mullet Strategy’.
Genius, read a bit more at: http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/The_Mullet_Strategy

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Great Climate Change Video

Forget about An Inconvenient Truth, it’s all long and boring and stuff. Watch this instead…

To my mind this deserves to have a lot more views than it’s had – so I’m going to make it my mission to get more people to see it. Please blog it or link to it. Visit the clip on [...]

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Prison Dancing

The clip of prisoners doing the Thriller dance has been featured all over the place, in case you missed it, here it is:

But I looked about and found these two which are less impressive from a choreography point of view. But somehow I found them a bit more odd. I think it might be because [...]

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital

There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process. Things that a lot of us have done, and hopefully learned from. I’m not suggesting that anyone is stupid for doing any [...]

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